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About Mandarin PART 1
"The People Who Make Mistakes" ...
The Most Fun We Ever Had
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What do you do?
Internet Application Design and Development
Our Experts  
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We don't really have any experts. HTML and CSS are the main focus and Michelle is a professional developer, but we rely on friends and fiddling a little with this and that in various browsers. Most of the day job is spent on the other duties as required. There's a Computerworld Article for the fifteen minutes of fame, or fifteen minutes of total chaos. It's outdated now but there is a photo. Non-ProfitWe have one reason for remaining non-profit. Mandarin is intended to be a playground for us and for those who want to customize Blogs and Web sites without having to read a book, or to buy a book. We think education and entertainment should be free and readily accessible to anyone who wants to learn. What did you do before?Labor Market Analyst (Economic)I began in Statistics and worked as a Labor Market Analyst. The work included researching occupational data, and forecasting the supply and demand of occupations by industry, and developing and publishing labor force and unemployment rate estimates. Labor Market Analyst's write monthly newsletters, bulletins, press releases and other narrative and graphic publications for use by the media, businesses, and the general public. Information Technology was still called Data Processing when work began in the IT world.Platforms: IBM Mainframe, VM, DEC VAX, Datapoint, and PC. Languages: Xbase, dBase III and IV, COBOL, Basic, SAS, NCL, DCL, RMS Chain, REXX, VB, FoxPro, PL1, JAVA, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS, MySQl, ColdFusion, REXX, and more. Recognition for significant improvement in government processes was demonstrated in the form of three cash Merit Awards from the Governor of the State of California, all in one year. After that I gave up suggesting and began implementing improvements from behind the curtain using smoke and mirrors. Early IT work included implementation and coordination of automation projects, preparation of multi-million dollar Feasibility Study Reports, Budget Change Proposals, and procurement documents and all of the boring stuff one must do to make it to the Associate Programmer Analyst level for the State of California. After that it's gravy. The ride up is fast and furious. What did you do before?Grand JurorDuring the Y2K period I served a one-year term as a Grand Juror for Yolo County, California. All Grand Jury work and investigations are confidential. The hours are long, and evening meetings on five committees are demanding. The final process was working on the Editing Committee that publishes the annual Grand Jury Report that is disseminated to the public as an insert in local newspapers. The successes while serving as a Grand Juror are the most important contributions to the community and most rewarding work, second only to Mandarin. |
What do they Say?A collection of quotes about Mandarin... Cascading Style SheetsCSS OpacityThere are many excellent resources on the Web to help you learn and explore Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). As I encounter those I consider worth special mention... Mandarin Design University of New Hamshire, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences Computer Science 403 BLOG TRICKS AND TIPSBLOG TRICKS AND TIPS The Lycos 50 Blog: Comments on Internet Culture and Search Trends Fantastic Design BlogI've never linked to Meg's fantastic design blog before, mainly because I admire from a distance but feel unable to use her glorious combination of style and geekishness in my little prefab space. It's sort of like putting a Louis XVI chaise or a real Eames chair in a dinky little stucco bungalow! But this was fun. Check out Mandarin Design for dozens of other stylish ideas... YuleblogYule is an emigré naturalized American returned Canadian citizen born in Germany, received a PhD in Art History from Harvard's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences in 1991, and lives in Victoria, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island.
Yule is the author of art history writings including
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and German Marks.
Thumbnail and OpacityCSS OpacityOpacity (letterlijk vertaald: doorschijnendheid) is een zeer complex onderwerp. Als je er meer over wil weten, kan ik de site van Mandarin Design aanraden. Daar staat een uitgebreide verhandeling over de onderwerpen 'opacity' en 'transparency'. Degenen die niet zo goed zijn in het Engels wil ik graag een handje helpen door hieronder wat voorbeelden van 'opacity' te geven. Allereerst verwijs ik naar mijn tutorial over de Alpha Opacity filter van Microsoft, zodat je enigszins een idee hebt waar het over gaat. Hieronder dan 4 dezelfde plaatjes met ieder een verschillende mate van opacity. OpacityDe codes zijn van Mandarin Design vanderklugt.speedxs.nl Using the Mandarin Grouping Images and Opacity tutorialsHome ImprovementHome Improvement Ten Things for Webloggers 1. Mandarin Design 2. ACME label maker 3. BlogSkins.com 4. Dude, Check This Out 5. Tripod Image Gallery 6. BlogPlates 7. Weblogs Compendium 8. Pivot 9. BlogRolling 10. BlogPulse Paperback Writer PBW writes as Gena Hale, Jessica Hall, Rebecca Kelly, Lynn Viehl, and S.L. Viehl. Work Published includes 26 Novels in 5 Genres Great CSS TipsMandarin Design - Great CSS Tips "whole shebang of excellent tips, tricks, design ideas and style..." An exploration of their site reveals a whole shebang of excellent tips, tricks, design ideas and style guidelines Student Links Center Australia. This web site is designed to provide students with an appropriate 'portal' to the world wide web that may help in the education of your child. Make your Blog look sweet!Mandarin Design Daily Tips and tricks to make your blog look SWEET! Honors Spanish III Honors Spanish III del señor Kawel Naples, Florida Tweak Your BlogTake a look at this daily blog packed with html and css tips for making your blog look like *your* blog, not an out-of-the-box template. It's also a great reference for quick tips regardless of the type of site you're working on. One of these days I'll do some template/style-sheet tweaking myself. "Tweak your Blog with help from Mandarin" eduBlogging DV for Teachers - Tim Erritt's DV News, Tips, and Commentary for Every Educator. News You Can UseMandarin Design "this is best place I've seen for making your blog look cool without busting too many brain cells" ...to the News You Can Use resources section of the right sidebar. A very cool place to learn all kinds of web design stuff, lots of free tools and good ideas. Mostly that resources section is for BIG tools that bring people together, but this is best place I've seen for making your blog look cool without busting too many brain cells. And great design certainly helps gather attention. Maybe they can help gather this page (!) when I get back from Nepal, in November. (?) via A Mindful Life and TheObvious GlobalChicago.net Chicago Small Change News Network Webpage CreationWebpage Creation Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) "...complete with illustrations of the effects of their code..." I love this site! I learn so much here! Mandarin Design is full of CSS tips n tricks, complete with illustrations of the effects of their code. For example, they showed me the code for the shadowed text above and the highlighted box (all done with CSS!). The published purpose is to help people jazz up their blogs, but of course the CSS code could be used on any webpage for effect ibritt.com For educators, writers, and web page creation Making the Most of CSSI’m always on the lookout for new ways to tweak CSS for design purposes. The more you can rely on CSS to drive layout, versus images, tables, etc. the faster your site is going to load and the more you’ll distinguish your site from others. Mandarin Design is one such site that is pushing the CSS envelope. An exploration of their site reveals a whole shebang of excellent tips, tricks, design ideas and style guidelines. I haven’t come close to checking everything out, but here are a couple of notable articles: "...for great text techniques and layout techniques, they offer some really clean, creative and easy ideas to take your web site or blog up a notch..." 1. Easy CSS Pull Quotes Keep in mind many of the tricks used on this site are not necessarily cross-browser compatible, particularly the image filtering tricks. However, for great text techniques and layout techniques, they offer some really clean, creative and easy ideas to take your web site or blog up a notch. Mareesa HTMLFixIT For Nuts and Bolts Web WorkWeb Design BlogsMandarin DesignExplores numerous Web design and CSS styling tricks and techniques. Features a weblog, color chart, and free images gallery. Web Design Blogs QeantBlog Trashed by MandarinBlog Trashed by Mandarin BlogEFL Spain - Observations and comments on the use of weblogs and other e-learning tools for English Language Teaching (EFL & ESL).Sticky Fingers"I have shamelessly stolen every piece of code I can get my sticky fingers on. His tips are simple and precise...I love this guy " Mandarin is my web hero. Ever since Mandarin appeared on fresh blogs I have shamelessly stolen every piece of code I can get my sticky fingers on. His tips are simple and precise. No intellectual HTML dumping just helpful blocks of code to make your web site neat and tidy. Fresher than TIDE, cleaner than a Pine-Sol floor, leaving you all tingly inside. I love this guy. Praise the lord. I'm a thief. I'm a thief. derr77 Opacity and TransparencyMandarin Design: CSS Opacity and Transparency Mandarin Design has a nice tutorial on CSS Opacity and Transparency that covers opacity as defined by the CSS3 specification and opacity as implemented in non-standard form by IE and Mozilla. Digital Media Online courses availableWebsite for BloggingI happened to come across a really helpful website for blogging called Mandarin Design. It offers many helpful tips on how to add boxes, changes colors, add borders to pictures, etc, etc. "...free graphics for use without permission..."
It takes the scary out of html. There are also many free graphics for use without permission. Rhode Island Cool Blog ToolsTim Merritt points to Mandarin Designs which offers up a whole bunch of little tweaks to make your blog look more interesting (or more busy depending on your point of view.) So I'm playing a little bit. I feel another design change upcoming... WebLogg-ed.com Will Richardson, blogvangelist and Supervisor of Instructional Technology and Communications at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, NJ. It's a hit!It's in German? CSS Headers from Mandarin gigadesignCSS Tips and TricksThere are a variety of web sites on the Internet that will help you explore all the fun and games CSS has to offer. The three I most highly recommend are CSS Zen Garden, Eric Meyer's CSS Edge, and Mandarian Design for seeing the possibilities in Cascading Style Sheets web design. CameraOnTheRoad.com Techniques for the traveling nature photographer Spotlight on Mandarin DesignI linked to this site a few days ago after I saw it at Kiwifruit’s. You’ve probably seen things all over the web that was inspired by that site. It was the Blog of the Day for May 11. Today, I finally had a chance to tinker with steal some of their tips n tricks. Check out this page on shadows. "I'm mostly just a trial and error guy and it was a breeze. I am now a huge fan of that site."This is what I did with one of the tricks I learned there. I'm mostly just a trial and error guy and it was a breeze. I am now a huge fan of that site. I expect it will be an inspiration and resource. My very limited web-design skills are generally learned on a need-to-know/want-to-know basis. I do not do this for a living. CSS and XML hold great power on the web but I just barely understand CSS and have zero knowledge of XML. Samples always help my understanding. Mandarin Design is loaded with them. CrabAppleLane.net Bush, Louisiana Web Fashion ColorsO site Mandarin Design Daily publica uma interessante perspectiva das cores da moda, desde os anos 60 até aos nossos dias e, apresenta as cores de moda para Primavera/Verão 2005. O interessante do Letrascomgarfos LETRAS COM GARFOS Portugal (and no we don't have a clue what it says) Copy and PasteThis blog site has a great accumulation of really helpful and useful FAQs about web page building and design. Most of the questions are answered with code included so all you have to do is copy and paste. "...Copy and Paste Web Page building..." I like how the answers to questions are in simple language and well communicated with examples and code. A good bunch of links are on the right nav of the blog's homepage. LeeLefever.com SeattleWeb DesignThis is a nice journal of lots of great web design and CSS tips. Looks nice, too. Site Library Canada Design ResourcesOccasionally you come across a web resource that really impresses. Mandarin Design is such a site. Without fuss and blowing it's own trumpet is impresses and teaches at the same time. "At the very least, it will inspire...quot; To be fair, there's probably less here for hardened web coders and more for graphic designers who want to add a bit of spice to their sites, with the minumum of pain. If you design web sites and want inspiration via the clever use of HTML and css styles, then pay them a visit. At the very least, it will inspire. Digital Design Talkboard Designed for BrowsingIf you're an aspiring web designer like myself, or even a well established designer in your prime, I just found a site that you better add to your favorites. Mandarin Design, a non-profit design group from California, has created a source of unlimited information for us and even wrapped it in an attractive package. "It's basically a huge grab bag of free tips and tricks" The site features articles about other web sites, how to's, and tons of interesting facts that you might not know yet. Take a look in their gallery and feel free to use any of their photographs or banners in your own work. This company is all about open source and wants to share everything with the design community. It's amazing!! My favorite part of the site is their blog. It's basically a huge grab bag of free tips and tricks. You can find tutorials, cheats, techniques, utilities, and links to a ton of other useful sites. Just copy and paste any code that you find useful, and come back the next day because they'll probably add something even cooler. Check it out Sizzlers. You won't regret it! Sausage sizzler Sizzler News Letter 2004 Weblog Awards2004 Weblog AwardsMy vote goes to Mandarin Design, because Michelle there provides us with understandable HTML and CSS tips in small, easily digestible bytes(sic!) on a regular basis. Stu SavoryGermany I voted for MandarinDesign, because I have learnt so many things, thanks to Michelle. ClaudeParis, France Very UsefulMandarin Design Daily . A blog specializing in promoting coding tricks."Very useful for a person like me..." Very useful for a person like me who only knows enough to be a menace on templates. gamalei.net Colour GuideIn case you're ever searching for a nice web-colour guide, here you go. It's pretty impressive and complete. Mandarin Design - Web Color Swatches lostway Mandarin FAQsMandarin Design: Frequently Asked Questions . Just wanted to make a note of this site. It has some nice CSS-based design ideas. sladey London, United Kingdom FAQMandarin Design: Frequently Asked Questions Blog tips, tricks and hints! baldrictrousers Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Stole it From MandarinStole it from Mandarin Design Daily . Go have a look at their site; it's got all kinds of interesting info for the blogger in YOU! otto Michigan terimakasih bu Michelle...I tell you miss Michelle in Bahasa..terimakasih bu Michelle, hope you always in good. kalau mau lihat aslinya klik saja....... Mandarin Design Dipta Third grade, Indonesia Way Cool
davidmsc USA Scrappy Scrapbook
She plays guitar. That's a bird at the fifth fret. Scrappy Scrapbook
Driving school. She needs it, he doesn't. Scrappy Scrapbook
A day at the track Scrappy Scrapbook
She works Scrappy Scrapbook
Washing the brain collage of aging       
Stu had the The Meme of Dorian Gray where Bloggers display photos over time. Rob called this the Collage of Aging so I cheated and took out the most recent picture. Scraps...         |
